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September 2, 2010
Lessons Learned From Gaming With Dad: How one parent is using video games to teach critical thinking and self-control.
Category: Games, Family

August 31, 2010
Reimagining Education and Learning in America: The MacArthur Foundation’s director of education says we don’t have to wait to create a new vision of learning for America’s schools. The time is now.
Category: Schools

August 30, 2010
Back to School, Part 2: Strategies for the Digital Classroom: As Holden Caulfield reminds us in “The Catcher in the Rye”: “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” While that enthusiasm annoys Holden, we think it’s…
Category: Games, Mobile, Schools, Social Media

August 27, 2010
Hiding in Plain Sight: Teens Say What They Mean to Reach Multiple Audiences: As more companies enter the fray to monitor teens’ words and activities online, teens are managing their privacy by engaging in age-old practices.
Category: Family, Safety, Social Media

August 26, 2010
Teach, Invent, Hack: Register Now for Mozilla’s Drumbeat Festival: Registration is now open for Mozilla’s first annual Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Web, Nov. 3 - 5 in Barcelona.
Category: Civic Engagement, Media Literacy, Museums